Impact & Performance

Livewell Southwest provides effective, integrated, and cost-effective health and care services to communities based in Plymouth, the South Hams, and West Devon, with some specialist services provided in wider parts of Devon and Cornwall. Everything we do is aimed at supporting, and improving, the health and wellbeing of local people.

We provide a range of services, from acute GPs through to mental health support and community nursing staff. The Livewell Southwest network of health and care specialists work on behalf of, and in partnership with, the NHS to provide care in the environments people most want to receive it – their local area, and their home. Our experience tells us that people feel much better when they are cared for at home, or in a place they know.

Our community-centred approach allows for people’s health and wellbeing to be continually and seamless supported at a local level – not just when they are unwell. We want to help neighbours, families, and other support networks to come together for the benefit of the health of the whole community. Livewell Southwest aims not just to help people become well, but also to stay well.

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About us

As an employee-led organisation, and the largest community health and social care enterprise in the UK, Livewell Southwest employs more than 3,000 members of staff who live and work in the local area. Being a not-for-profit organisation allows us to reinvest all our revenue back into the care we provide for our communities.

Our award-winning services are diverse and include: physiotherapy; psychotherapy and other community mental health services; community nursing; social work; children and young people’s services; wellbeing and health improvement services; pharmacies and services for people with learning disabilities. These are delivered either in the person’s home, or from our 12 locations across the southwest, which include minor injuries and recovery units, community or acute hospitals, clinics and dental access centres.